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  1. Canadian Living Standards

    One of the most well-worn phrases of social reformers and political pundits is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/CanadianLivingStandards1998.pdf ...

  2. Fraser Forum- February 1998: Canada's Health Care System: Ideas for Reform

    In this issue: Don't Believe Everything the "Experts" Say About Health Care by David Gratzer Experts oppose the "user fee" approach to health care because they believe that fees deter people from obtaining necessary care. How to ...

  3. Poverty in Canada, 2nd Edition

    This revised edition of Poverty in Canada is a provocative challenge to current approaches to defining and measuring poverty. It includes an update section with new data for all the key tables along with an accompanying commentary. Like the first edition, ...

  4. Poverty in Canada

    This book is a provocative challenge to current approaches to defining and measuring poverty. It argues that prevailing estimates greatly exaggerate the number of poor; that Statistics Canada's low-income cut-off, the standard tool used in virtually ...